just
1. [ adverb ] and nothing more
Synonyms: only merely simply but
Examples:

"I was merely asking" "it is simply a matter of time" "just a scratch" "he was only a child" "hopes that last but a moment"

Related terms: bare bare bare
2. [ adverb ] indicating exactness or preciseness
Synonyms: exactly precisely
Examples:

"he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do" "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone" "it has just enough salt"

Related terms: precise exact precise exact
3. [ adverb ] only a moment ago
Synonyms: just_now
Examples:

"he has just arrived" "the sun just now came out"

4. [ adverb ] (intensifier) absolutely
Synonyms: simply
Examples:

"I just can't take it anymore" "he was just grand as Romeo" "it's simply beautiful!"

Related terms: intensifier
5. [ adverb ] by a small margin
Synonyms: hardly barely scarcely scarce
Examples:

"they could barely hear the speaker" "we hardly knew them" "just missed being hit" "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open" "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats

6. [ adjective ] used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting
Examples:

"a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln "a kind and just man" "a just reward" "his just inheritance"

Related terms: unjust fitting rightful retributive conscionable fair right righteous honorable
7. [ adjective ] of moral excellence
Synonyms: good virtuous upright
Examples:

"a genuinely good person" "a just cause" "an upright and respectable man" "the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass

Related terms: righteous
8. [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7401
9. [ adjective ] implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all
Synonyms: equitable
Examples:

"equitable treatment of all citizens" "an equitable distribution of gifts among the children"

Related terms: inequitable evenhanded
10. [ adjective ] free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules
Synonyms: fair
Examples:

"a fair referee "fair deal" "on a fair footing" "a fair fight" "by fair means or foul"

Related terms: unfair clean antimonopoly fair-and-square fair-minded fair-and-square fair-minded reasonable impartial fairness
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